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The Garden was the site of frequent visits in the 1860s by the Oxford mathematics professor Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and the Liddell children, Alice and her sisters. Like many of the places and people of Oxford, it was a source of inspiration for Carroll's stories in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Harcourt Arboretum is an arboretum owned and run by the University of Oxford.It is a satellite of the university's botanic garden in the city of Oxford, England.The arboretum itself is located six miles (ten kilometres) south of Oxford on the A4074 road, near the village of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire, [1] and comprises some 150 acres (60 hectares). [2]
The main entrance of the Ashmolean Museum in central Oxford. The Oxford University Museum of Natural History viewed from Museum Road. The following museums and art galleries are located in the city of Oxford, England (with locations), many run by the University of Oxford: [1] [2] Ashmolean Museum * (Beaumont Street)
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It also contains a lecture theatre which is used by the university's chemistry , zoology and mathematics departments.
Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in England. [2] The museum is located to the east of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and can only be accessed through that building.
Name Image Affiliation City Coordinates Chadwick Arboretum: Ohio State University: Columbus: Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden: Cincinnati: Cleveland Botanical Garden
Just southeast of Lower Farm, about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) northwest of the present Nuneham Courtenay village, is the site of a former Romano-British pottery kiln.The kiln was about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) west of the Roman road that linked the Roman towns at Dorchester on Thames and Alchester.
The Museum of Oxford was first opened in 1975 inside Oxford Town Hall, occupying the former premises of the Oxford Public Library. [1] The museum is situated inside Oxford Town Hall, which was first opened in 1897 and was built by the architect Henry Hare in the Jacobethan style. [citation needed]